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Formula 1 owner Liberty Media intends to finalise its purchase of the MotoGP World Championship for a figure of around โ‚ฌ4 billion.

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[โ€“] Tagger@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any chance of them unifying the two series to run on the same tracks each weekend?

[โ€“] frank@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's unlikely for a few reasons. The biggest reason being that F1 is sold out at most permanent race tracks (non street circuits) these days.

Having raced both cars and bikes at an amateur level, I don't think the safety features are similar enough. You move a lot of air fence/tecpro and widen or lessen gravel traps to switch between cars and bikes.

They may once for a promo type of thing, but I doubt it'd be a consistent thing. Happy to be proven wrong for sure, but it seems logistically too tough.

[โ€“] Tagger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

True true, they would be leaving ticket money on the table, even apart from all the safety and logistical issues.

[โ€“] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be really cool. I'm not very familiar with MotoGP, but they have different curb/runoff/etc. requirements, right? Are there a lot of F1 races that meet requirement for both series? I know they already share some tracks on different weekends.

My understanding is that most if not all dedicated tracks that F1 races on could be Moto GP tracks, but street circuits would be no. The bigger issue is the loss of good GP tracks that F1 could not use. Like Laguna Seca, it has one of the best corner complexes in racing but F1 can't race there. And we all know they would axe moto GP races before F1

[โ€“] Varyag@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well fuck, MotoGP wad fun while it lasted.

[โ€“] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get ready for street circuits in MotoGP

[โ€“] Varyag@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh god fucking no. I don't want to see a young promising rider splattered on a wall.

[โ€“] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I've been watching both motoGP and F1 for a while (2010 and 2008, respectively), and I think liberty was really good for F1 fans. Yes, it's more popular and harder to go to some races now for sure. But the production value, amount of coverage you get is significantly higher than Bernie-era-F1. I'd be excited for better MotoGP coverage honestly.

Give me a package deal to watch both and I will buy it

[โ€“] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oh lovely, more off-track drama...

[โ€“] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

If I can pay for one service to watch both that would be great

[โ€“] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

We're in an odd timeline. I wouldn't be surprised to see the following news story in the future:

"Hamilton takes the checkered flag at this weekend's Isle of Man F1/MotoGP biathlon."